The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-05-26


set such an example to the thoughtless
and wrong headed Of their race. We
believe in securing to the negro every
right and privilege necessary under the
law to enable them to work out the
destiny of their race; open The church
and the school house to them, give
them freely without money and with
out price every opportunity due to
manhood in the battle of life. But
for Gods sake don't let his swarthy
skin be seen at our hresides nor our
white faces at his; in that regard there
is between us a great gulf. --~----
We do not know who attended
Bishop Lyman's reception; we have
simply heard that the convention as a
body was invited and that the attend
ance was large. Such gentlemen as
Hon. Thomas Ruffin. Hon. John Man
ming, Col VIM. H. S. Burgwyn
and Richard H. Battle, Esq, were
| lay delegates to the convention and
we suppose were invited. We are ig-
norant as to whether they attended or
not and therefore make no assertion
on that point.
This we do say, however, these gen.
tlemen owe it to themselves and to the
white people of the State to say pub
licly if they were not present. We
have no desire to drag any mere pri
vate gentlemen's name before the pub
| lie without cause, and do not think we
have done SO; we repeat such is not
our intention, but we do think the
people have right to know if these
things are SO. Certainly their con-
stituents who sent them as lay dele
gates have the right if the whole peo-
pie have not. If these gentlemen are
silent will not the public be justified
in assuming that they did go?
This article is not intended as an
attack either upon the Episcopal
Church, or upon Bishop Lyman, or
upon any person white or black, who
was present at and participated in the
entertainment.
We have attempted to be moder-
ate and guarded in every expression
of opinion and statement of fact, and
if these things are true we shall see to
it that the people of the State are in
formed of the fact.-Raleigh Signal |
The above article appeared as an
editorial in the Raleigh Signal last
week. When we say the Signal, the
ablest Republican paper in the State,
condemns in such strong terms the So
cial equality business above men
toned, further comment IS hardly
necessary. Still the GOLD LEAF can
not refrain from expressing its own
Of such conduct. Far be it
from us to wish to, rob the negro of
one single right that belongs to him
under the law, but the white and the
black races are separate and distinct
as wide apart in everything that makes
them two different classes of human
beings, as was the gulf between Dives
and Lazarus-and the time will never
come when the Caucasian and the
negro will meet on the same social
plane. The whites will never submit
to it, and the better class of negroes
do not want it and no action on the
part of any one whomsoever, no mat
ter what they, as private individuals,
may do, will ever be able 10 foist such
a thing upon them.
We do not envy the negro any of
his rights ard liberties as guaranteed
to him under the Constitution-we
would not take from him his churches
and schools-but for Gods sake let $
ann stay away from our affairs and I
lresldes. Let him go his way in g
peace, undisturbed and unmolested
ct him have his own church and be
allowed to worship his God in his own t
way; let him have his school house /
md educate his own children yes, in
matters of this kind let the negro F
llone; and above all-high and for r
yer above all else-let him alone
When it comes to meeting on social
quality in our homes, i'll the company
II our wives, and our daughters, and '
ur sisters. T